The ever-ambitious San Diego Musical Theatre opens its season with a Kander & Ebb classic that must be our town’s kind of musical: This will be one of at least four San Diego-area productions of “Chicago” in the span of 10 months.

Ron Kellum, who has done sharp work on such past SDMT shows as “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” directs a cast that includes Emma Radwick as the celebrated jailbird and antiheroine Roxie Hart; Kyra Da Costa as her rival turned partner in crime, Velma Kelly; Robert J. Townsend as the suave lawyer Billy Flynn; and Alonzo Saunders as Mary Sunshine, the gossip queen with a surprise or two up her sleeve.

It’s not just San Diego that has a thing for “Chicago,” by the way: The musical, with its sardonic take on fame and bad behavior in the Prohibition-era Windy City, is now the third-longest-running show in Broadway history.